TempoPeek

a‐ha · Stay on These Roads

Touchy!

Touchy! is in F major at 103.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

104 BPM · Andantemedian of 199 analyses · 103.6–106 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
199people who ran the extractor
One beat
578.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.63dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.902Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.484Essentia's danceability, 0–3

Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

What the numbers say

199 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 199 readings; 46% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 103.6 to 106 BPM.

At 103.7 BPM one beat lasts 578.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 144.6 ms and a dotted eighth 433.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 207.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.63 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.902 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.

10 other recordings here are in F major; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.

Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.

Keys that fit with F major

Each of these differs from F major by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.

Delay times at 104 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42314.40.43
Half note21157.20.86
Dotted quarter1.5867.91.15
Quarter note (one beat)1578.61.73
Quarter triplet0.667385.72.59
Dotted eighth0.75433.92.3
Eighth note0.5289.33.46
Eighth triplet0.333192.95.19
Dotted sixteenth0.3752174.61
Sixteenth note0.25144.66.91
Sixteenth triplet0.16796.410.37
Thirty-second note0.12572.313.83

Half time 51.9 BPM · double time 207.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (578.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The BestTina TurnerF major104BPM
  2. Everything’s Good (Good Ass Outro)Chance the RapperF major104BPM
  3. Bleeding LoveLeona LewisF major104BPM
  4. Stay on These Roadsa‐haF major104BPM
  5. Change ClothesJay‐Z feat. PharrellF major104BPM
  6. The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)Atomic KittenF major104BPM
  7. I WillThe BeatlesF major103BPM
  8. New Orleans Instrumental No. 1R.E.M.F major104BPM
  9. Rock DJRobbie WilliamsF major103BPM
  10. Lonely TogetherAvicii feat. Rita OraF major103BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 104 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 104 BPMF major at 100–109 BPMa‐ha

MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8c4ddcdb-1aa4-404d-9755-1e23bf087b9e.